How to Start an Anti-Candida Diet

Starting an Anti-Candida diet can be off-putting because, more often than not, it means a big lifestyle change. The following steps, however, will make the transition easier:

Before Beginning the Diet

1. Sit down and read through the diet you will be following. Make notes of the important points and put them on your fridge so that you can revisit them.
2. Print off, or write out, a list of approved and unapproved foods. Keep this in the kitchen too.
3. Clean out your kitchen cupboards. Throw out anything that's no good and give away the rubbish you can't have anymore (give to friends, family and charity). You can keep a cupboard for those not participating in the diet.
4. Get herbs and spices in; just because you're going to be eating simply, doesn't mean that it has to be flavourless (herbs and spices also have great medicinal qualities).

During the Diet

1. Plan a weeks worth of meals in advance. Take into consideration when you will have time to cook and when you will be in a rush.
2. Realise that you won't be able to eat the same way you used to. If you try to recreate your favourite cheesy dish without cheese, you're just going to be disappointed.
3. Get others in the household involved. Eating healthily should be something to be celebrated, not dreaded. Children can help with food shopping, preparing meals and coming up with meal ideas - create ingredients wheels, one they can spin to pick veggies and another to pick carbohydrates or proteins.
4. Make sure you have something interesting to drink - herbal teas, dandelion coffee, homemade lemonade (children can help with this too). Adding a little stevia to herbal teas can really help to keep cravings at bay.
5. Make approved snacks that you can turn to when you are craving unapproved foods.
6. When cooking, make a little extra and freeze the leftovers. This way you won't be tempted to have unapproved foods if you're in a hurry.
7. Try to vary your meals. If you eat the same thing every day, you can open yourself up to the creation of allergies. You will also get bored and unapproved foods will look even more tempting.
8. Don't starve yourself. Just because people refer to eating plans as 'diets' doesn't mean that you have to restrict the amount that you eat. Eat as much as you like off the approved food list. If you're hungry you are more likely to stray.
9. After a week on the diet, re-read the 'rules' of your diet. Now you've got a lot of the information absorbed, you might find that there is something that you missed the first time. You'd be surprised how many people get three or four months into a diet and realise they've been eating something they shouldn't.
10. Don't beat yourself up if you make a mistake. You will have learnt from the experience and can move on.

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